Raw news footage originally shot by staff of the Baltimore, Maryland station WMAR-TV (Channel 2), dating to April 5-8, 1968.

1. Women interviewed by Susan White
2. Woman interviewed by Susan White
3. City Hall with flags at half mast; interior auditorium with speaker; shots of audience; bishop saying mass; station building (now MICA) with lettering on roof “students mourn our Martin Luther King”
4. Philip Goodman at microphone giving prepared statement
5. Reporter interviews man in office
6. Coretta Scott King “at the time of the assassination of JFK, I remember feeling, experiencing a feeling of complete despair. I just didn’t see what would happen, how we would be able to continue to in the way that we had been going, making progress. But this feeling didn’t last too long, matter of fact it was only a few hours, because somehow I had the ability to tell myself that everything that happens no matter how bad it is has a purpose, and there must be something good that can come out of the worst evil…I told myself that the death of the president, horrible as it is, there must be some good that can come out of it, and I just felt this and believe that somehow there would be another person who could lead this nation on (cut)”
7. Female reporter in front of control board interviews man in uniform, another younger man interviewed
8. Sports reporter interviews player
9. Horse racing action; winner poses for camera, tosses whip
10. Reporter interviews man in front of damaged building; interviews woman, zoom in to woman speaking
11. Military officers with another VIP at press conference (TDIII?); Gen. Galston (name tag visible) at his left
12. Agnew gives speech inside office
13. Man interviewed by reporter
14. Fire aerial views
15. Interior control room, men in beige uniforms at panel, one talks on the red phone and speaks into speaker
16. Helicopter landing in lot near building marked “Jackson Towers”; military in dress uniform outside armory; red cross jeeps and army jeeps pulling out of armory parking lot
17. Agnew; giving speech, US flag behind him
18. View from window of moving car driving down street, past Kidwell Liquor; police van passes, lights flashing, military transport vehicles pass camera; soldiers with people against a wall, holding bayonets, frisking them; sign in background equitable trust; soldier searching trunk of vehicle; soldier stops couple in car; sign “cut rate liquors” man in dress uniform (cop?) at night; daytime, building on fire next to “carryout submarine” shop; man on stretcher taken to vehicle; firefighters pulling hose towards burning building; man arrested, many cops standing around; man held against car, smiling; woman searched; cops gathered near covered body; army soldiers by smashed building; Police community relations center with window smashed in; soldiers lined up outside of police station; soldiers w/ bayonets march down street, dispersing crowd; transport vehicles speed down street; people in cars wave to army; group of soldiers running across street w/ guns; confrontation with crowd; soldier points gun at man who screams at them; another man struggles ; medium shot soldiers holding guns to their chests

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